Outliner..good but not great

[redinhawaii]

Is it me or just the way I use this feature in SU.
It seems Outliner has lots of potential but it too quirky.
It crashes SU frequently, when I click on a sub group, it jumps, expands all sub groups and I have to re orient where I was.
Why is this not simple, easy to use and like what we are most familiar with...an outline of the model?
Is this a bug, a feature worthy of working the way it does, or am I doing something wrong?
thanks for your insights and experience.
aloha
red

[watkins]

Dear Red,

Nope, the Outliner needs a lot of work. However, it is useful for highlighting groups and components. If you select a group and right click then you can name/re-name, lock, hide etc. So it is good for that. With the Entity Window open, click on a group/component to show the number of groups/components with that definition name. By selecting 'expand all' (menu at top of outliner), clicking on one group/component will highlight all those groups/components with the same definition name. To select a part for editing and/or to see where copies of that part are lodged, then double click on a group/component in the list, but first go to Info Model>Components and activate Hide against Fade rest of mode. Unfortunately, one cannot scroll up/down the list using the up/down arrow keys, which is really annoying.

Regards,
Bob

[david_h]

my biggest gripe with OUtliner is with nested components and being able to hide rest of model, but still reveal the parent of the nested group/component being edited. That seems to me a very easy thing to do, and I mentioned it here a lot, but it doesnt get a lot of play. I guess it's just me.

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